Quotes About Inequity

The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.

The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.

Only poor men get hanged.

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

Policymakers cannot take the situation lightly, for at its worst, it speaks to "intergenerational inequity" – a breaking of the social contract between two generations.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them the poor would make a wonderful living.

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.

Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

Our health care is rationed by wealth.

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

You have 62 people worth the amount the bottom three and a half billion people are worth. Sixty-two people! You could put them all in one bloody bus… then crash it!

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

You grow up in a community with abandoned homes, a jobless rate of over 25 percent, underfunded schools, and you stand outside your home, look at the city's gleaming downtown skyline, at its prosperity, and you know your place in the world.

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

The results of inequity and bias impact everything from suspension rates, to housing access, to health outcomes, to medical interventions, to job opportunity and promotions, to criminal sentencing, and even to the very safety of the water one drinks and air one breathes.

My mother is most attached to my brother because she has the feeling that she could not provide him anything. By the time I was born, at least I got a meal and a half a day, but he sometimes got only water.

I looked at him and did not answer; there flashed through my mind a quick, running picture of all the squalid hovels in which I had lived and it made me feel more than ever a stranger as I stood before him. How could I have told him that I had learned to curse before I had learned to read? How could I have told him that I had been a drunkard at the age of six?